“Go back to your third world country” Team Nigeria reveals harsh words of Liz Cambage during pre-Olympic outburst
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Liz Cambage has been on the hot seat for her actions toward the Nigerian people. As the Tokyo Olympics approached closer players from all over the world were getting ready to compete in one of the world’s biggest sporting events. But it seems like not everyone was having after what happened during a practice scrimmage ahead of the global event.
The Olympics is an event where some of the world’s greatest athletes come together to showcase their expertise in their particular sub-division. This also means that the event is where you will find people from all walks of life and different races. These days racism has no space to exist in society but the number of issues related to the problem has not seen an end.
Liz Cambage is denying that she used a racial slur against members of a Nigerian basketball team. https://t.co/eBTJyeMuHJ
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Team Australia’s Liz Cambage insults Nigerian players during the game
It all began last year in Las Vegas when, Liz Cambage of the Australian National Team, the Opals met against the Nigerian Women’s Basketball team in a five on five pre-Olympic practice scrimmage. All this came to light after several accusations of the player calling the Nigerian women names insulting to their race. A video recently surfaced on the internet showing that the Australian player got physical as well.
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The WNBA player was soon released from the team as they did not appreciate the racial remarks. Now, it has been 10 months since Cambage announced her withdrawal from the Tokyo Olympics. The National team had only said that she was under an unspecified investigation, “for a breach of the integrity framework and code of conduct.”
Team Nigeria reveals harsh words of Liz Cambage
Almost a year since the incident had taken place and players of Team Nigeria have spoken about what was said to them by Liz Cambage. Unfortunately, as part of the investigation, the identities of the players were strictly asked to be hidden. However, they said that they were being called “Monkeys” and heard Cambage uttering the words, “go back to your third world country.”
“That’s what I recall, the term monkeys, yes. She definitely did use monkeys or monkey,” said one of the players. One of the Opals said, “There had been so many behavioral issues that had gone on previously that we could write a book, but that incident happened to be the final straw.” Cambage’s father also was saddened by his daughter’s remarks as he is also Nigerian.
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